Note on a strongly unimodal bibliometric size frequency distribution

H. S. Sichel

Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 1992, vol. 43, issue 4, 299-303

Abstract: The number of references at the end of scientific research papers form a strongly unimodal frequency distribution. It is shown that the generalized inverse Gaussian‐Poisson distribution fits such unimodal data extremely well. © 1992 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

Date: 1992
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